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thoughts on creating and owning a unique look / brand / company

Earlier this morning I was in a work review session here at Dell, where i’m on the Global Site Design Team, and the topic of “creating and owning a look / brand / feel that is uniquely Dell” came up. This is definetely not the first or last time we’ve…

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a few links of inspiring tablet interface designs

Earlier today I had a coworker ask me for any resources regarding good tablet interface design. Since I have just begun working on projects like this, I told him I didn’t have many, but I was happy to share what I had.

I thought maybe a few of you…

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Observations on Steve Job’s Biography; A new series of posts

Being an avid mac user for the last decade, a former apple retail specialist, and overall fan of all things apple inc (i was there the day the word computer was nixed), I was quite eager to begin reading Jobs’ recent biography by Walter Isaacson. *On a side note, I…

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Bacon Tube – A free and meaty, quickly editable Youtube Channel PSD Template

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Recently I had the great opportunity to create a custom Youtube Channel for Dell. While there are some handy features in the Youtube admin tool to change out a handfull of properties (essentially CSS classes), I found it a bit time consuming creating a…

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a few good Sxsw 2012 panel proposals

I had a blast last year at sxsw, and i’m looking forward to an even better year in 2012. If your new to sxsw, first off welcome! secondly, you have the chance to help determine which panels / ideas / speakers will make it to the stage, through the online…

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Let start the Sxswi 2012 Panel Ideas discussion

It’s hard for me to believe, but it’s almost time to start submitting panel ideas for the 2012 rendition of the Sxsw Interactive Festival. I got an email just last week cluing me in, so I’ve been tossing around some ideas over the last few days.

As I’ve talked…

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Dream no small dreams; why I’m joining Dell.com

In less than a week, I will be starting a new chapter in my life, as I join the creative team behind Dell.com , and all it’s global iterations. As I’ve started to tell a few friends over the last week, I’ve had mixed reactions to say the least. From…

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life lessons from the mountain bike trail

I just got back from a long weekend with my bride, which we spent in the breathtakingly gorgeous Boulder, Colorado area. If you have never been there, cancel whatever upcoming vacation plans you have for, and book a stay in boulder. It was an amazing time of rest, conversation, and…

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a recap of “clients are not the target audience, users are”, from sxswi 2011

I recently had the honor of speaking at South by Southwest Interactive Festival, and had an even greater honor in meeting and leading the conversation with the extremely smart and talented Anton @repponen , an associate creative director at fantasy interactive ( @F_i ) in new york. I…

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passion. a festival. and a challenge. a recap of sxswi 2011

It was everything I could have imagined, and more. Which is saying alot, considering that I’ve dreamt of going for almost a decade. Not many things in life live up to expectations, but the 2011 south by southwest interactive festival certainly did. In an attempt for brevity, I will summarize…

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